<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 13, 2007 11:40 PM, Donn <<a href="mailto:donn.ingle@gmail.com" target="_blank">donn.ingle@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi, tis I.</blockquote><div> hi,   </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">  I feel more than a little sheepish having so many replies and *still* not getting some of the basics. I will press on. I savvy that a Pattern is a source of data for Cairo. I also see that vector data remains vector and raster remains raster.  Now, when one draws stuff in Cairo, let's say a tree, within a push/pop group -- what becomes of that data?  My experience has been that it becomes a raster of what was drawn (clipped to the edges of the window). But it started life as what I would think of as a "vector" -- lines between points -- so wouldn't it make sense to expect a vector back again?</blockquote><div> try maybe to look here: <a href="http://cairographics.org/news/cairo-1.5.2/" target="_blank">http://cairographics.org/news/cairo-1.5.2/</a> under "<code>Major PDF/PostScript improvements"  </code> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">  What if one wanted to paint it at a larger scale or output it to an SVG? Perhaps there's a setting somewhere I have not seen. Just wondering aloud for clarity. \d _______________________________________________ cairo mailing list <a href="mailto:cairo@cairographics.org" target="_blank"> cairo@cairographics.org</a> <a href="http://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo" target="_blank">http://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo</a> </blockquote></div>